This case study is one of three carried out at selected sites in India, Nepal, and Pakistan to look at the phenomenon of migration, and the flow of remittances, in the western Hindu Kush-Himalayas. A synthesis of the findings has been published by ICIMOD in the document: Hoermann B; Banerjee S; Kollmair M (2010) Labour migration for development in the western Hindu Kush-Himalayas. The publication presented here is the full summary of the case study carried out in the Mountains of Pakistan.